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Lenition and metathesis in Hawu: A quantity-sensitive language (2021)
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Ulfsbjorninn, S. (2021). Lenition and metathesis in Hawu: A quantity-sensitive language. SOAS working papers in linguistics, 20, 1-25. https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00035588

Hawu shows highly unusual distributions of strength/weakness. Firstly, it appears unique in restricting schwa to stressed positions, excluding it elsewhere. Secondly, Hawu has undergone rampant intervocalic lenition of consonants, except after schwa... Read More about Lenition and metathesis in Hawu: A quantity-sensitive language.

Preliminary orthographic design for Ramari Dongosaro (2021)
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Vita, V., & Pedro, C. (2021). Preliminary orthographic design for Ramari Dongosaro. SOAS working papers in linguistics, 20, 26-48. https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00035589

This paper aims at providing a detailed account of a standardisation project currently underway for Ramari Dongosaro, or Sonsorolese (ISO 639-3: sov), an endangered language spoken by less than 400 speakers (Eberhard, Simons & Fennig 2021) in the Rep... Read More about Preliminary orthographic design for Ramari Dongosaro.

Tense and aspect comparison between Griko, Modern Greek and Italian for the indicative (2021)
Journal Article
Zeikos, P. A. (2021). Tense and aspect comparison between Griko, Modern Greek and Italian for the indicative. SOAS working papers in linguistics, 20, 49-71. https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00035590

This essay investigates how Griko, an Italiot-Greek language, spoken in Italy, forms verbs in comparison to Modern Greek and Italian, by focusing on the present tense, the imperfect, the past tense, the present perfect, the past perfect and lastly, t... Read More about Tense and aspect comparison between Griko, Modern Greek and Italian for the indicative.

While we are asleep: Master/Mentor-Apprentice language learning initiative in the Ryukyus (2021)
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Zlazli, M. (2021). While we are asleep: Master/Mentor-Apprentice language learning initiative in the Ryukyus. SOAS working papers in linguistics, 20, 142-164. https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00035592

I currently conduct participatory action research with new speakers of Ryukyuan languages by running a project called MAI-Ryukyus, which is designed based on Hinton’s Master/Mentor-Apprentice Language Learning Program, to explore both emotional and c... Read More about While we are asleep: Master/Mentor-Apprentice language learning initiative in the Ryukyus.

Interdisciplinary research in language documentation: The benefits and present limits of a more sustainable documentation methodology (2021)
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Round, S. (2021). Interdisciplinary research in language documentation: The benefits and present limits of a more sustainable documentation methodology. SOAS working papers in linguistics, 20, 165-180. https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00035596

Interdisciplinary Research (IDR) in language documentation furnishes linguists with the knowledge they require to access and explain linguistic practices inextricable from their extra-disciplinary context. By heightening the validity of documentation... Read More about Interdisciplinary research in language documentation: The benefits and present limits of a more sustainable documentation methodology.

Feminist Ethnography in South Korea: Documenting Conversion to Islam in "Multicultural" Korea and the Gendered Struggle for Belonging (2021)
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Sheikh, F. (2021). Feminist Ethnography in South Korea: Documenting Conversion to Islam in "Multicultural" Korea and the Gendered Struggle for Belonging. European journal of Korean studies, 21(1), 233-257. https://doi.org/10.33526/ejks.20212101.233

This paper presents a feminist ethnographic account of the gendered struggle for belonging in “multicultural” Korea through an in-depth case study of a Korean Muslim woman convert and her family. Centering the informant and her family’s narratives, I... Read More about Feminist Ethnography in South Korea: Documenting Conversion to Islam in "Multicultural" Korea and the Gendered Struggle for Belonging.

Zoroastrian Ritual and Exegetical Traditions: The Case of the Iranian Pahlavi Yasna (2021)
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Khanizadeh, M. (2021). Zoroastrian Ritual and Exegetical Traditions: The Case of the Iranian Pahlavi Yasna. Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 84(3), 469-504. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0041977X21000781

The manuscripts of the Iranian Pahlavi Yasna contain two consecutive colophons, the second of which relates the story of how their common ancestor manuscript, which combines the Avestan text of the Yasna with its Pahlavi version, was created. It is a... Read More about Zoroastrian Ritual and Exegetical Traditions: The Case of the Iranian Pahlavi Yasna.

China: capital flight or renminbi internationalization? (2021)
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van Naije, P., de Conti, B., & Zucker-Marques, M. (2021). China: capital flight or renminbi internationalization?. Review of Keynesian Economics, 9(4), 552-574. https://doi.org/10.4337/roke.2021.04.06

During 2014–2016, many analysts have claimed the occurrence of a capital flight in China due to the reduction of the country's foreign reserves by over US$800 billion. This paper aims therefore to answer the question: did China really undergo a capit... Read More about China: capital flight or renminbi internationalization?.

The rāg that Burned down Delhi: Music and Memory between 1857 and 1947 (2021)
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Williams, R. D. (2021). The rāg that Burned down Delhi: Music and Memory between 1857 and 1947. Cracow Indological Studies, 23(1), 197-217. https://doi.org/10.12797/CIS.23.2021.01.07

The Urdu litterateur Shahid Ahmad Dehlvi (1906–1967) recorded a series of reflections and reminiscences about Delhi, its culture, and how that culture was brought to an end by the violence of Partition in 1947. In his essays on music, he documented t... Read More about The rāg that Burned down Delhi: Music and Memory between 1857 and 1947.

Understanding material and supplier networks in the construction of disaster-relief shelters: the feasibility of using social network analysis as a decision-making tool (2021)
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Copping, A., Kuchai, N., Hattam, L., Paszkiewicz, N., Albadra, D., Shepherd, P., Sahin Burat, E., & Coley, D. (2022). Understanding material and supplier networks in the construction of disaster-relief shelters: the feasibility of using social network analysis as a decision-making tool. Journal of Humanitarian Logistics and Supply Chain Management, 12(1), 78-105. https://doi.org/10.1108/JHLSCM-01-2020-0007

Purpose: Understanding the supply network of construction materials used to construct shelters in refugee camps, or during the reconstruction of communities, is important as it can reveal the intricate links between different stakeholders and the vol... Read More about Understanding material and supplier networks in the construction of disaster-relief shelters: the feasibility of using social network analysis as a decision-making tool.

Rebuilding Authority: The Party's Relationship with Its Grassroots Organizations (2021)
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Mittelstaedt, J. C. (2021). Rebuilding Authority: The Party's Relationship with Its Grassroots Organizations. The China Quarterly, 248(S1), 244-264. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0305741021000746

While existing scholarship looks at the relationship between the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and emerging social strata and civil society, the Party's impact on its own grassroots has been largely overlooked. How does the Party manage its own grass... Read More about Rebuilding Authority: The Party's Relationship with Its Grassroots Organizations.

Media coverage, corporate social irresponsibility conduct, and financial analysts' performance (2021)
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Berkan, A., Becchetti, L., & Stefano, M. Media coverage, corporate social irresponsibility conduct, and financial analysts' performance. Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, 28(5), 1456-1470. https://doi.org/10.1002/csr.2176

We examine how financial analysts respond to public information about corporate social irresponsibility (CSI) conduct. Exploiting a novel dataset on environmental, social, and governance reputational risk rating based on media coverage and analyzing... Read More about Media coverage, corporate social irresponsibility conduct, and financial analysts' performance.

The functions of emotion-referencing names in Ibibio (2021)
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Mensah, E., Dzokoto, V., & Rowan, K. (2021). The functions of emotion-referencing names in Ibibio. International Journal of Language and Culture, 8(2), 218-244. https://doi.org/10.1075/ijolc.19009.men

In certain societies including the Ibibio of Akwa Ibom State, South-Eastern Nigeria, naming is a distinctive system of communicative practice which is used to express emotion and construct the personhood and identity of the name-bearer. This article... Read More about The functions of emotion-referencing names in Ibibio.

Ritual and authority in world politics (2021)
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Kustermans, J., Svensson, T., Costa López, J., Blasenheim, T., & Hoffmann, A. (2021). Ritual and authority in world politics. Cambridge Review of International Affairs, 35(1), 2-30. https://doi.org/10.1080/09557571.2021.1975647

The contributions to this Forum on Ritual and Authority in World Politics examine the role that ritual performances play in the constitution of positions of authority and the maintenance of relations of authority in historical and contemporary intern... Read More about Ritual and authority in world politics.

The global politics of the renewable energy transition and the non-substitutability hypothesis: towards a ‘great transformation’? (2021)
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Albert, M. (2022). The global politics of the renewable energy transition and the non-substitutability hypothesis: towards a ‘great transformation’?. Review of International Political Economy, 29(5), 1766-1781. https://doi.org/10.1080/09692290.2021.1980418

This essay will investigate the question of how the renewable energy (RE) transition may reshape world politics. To date, most IPE scholars of the RE transition assume that renewables will simply substitute for fossil fuels and thereby continue simil... Read More about The global politics of the renewable energy transition and the non-substitutability hypothesis: towards a ‘great transformation’?.

Continuing cereals research for sustainable health and well-being (2021)
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Poole, N., Donovan, J., & Erenstein, O. (2022). Continuing cereals research for sustainable health and well-being. International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability, 20(5), 693-704. https://doi.org/10.1080/14735903.2021.1975437

Cereals research over the past fifty years has led to huge improvements in production, productivity and food security. The current emphasis in agri-nutrition on micronutrients has cast doubt on the need to continue to invest in cereals. However, besi... Read More about Continuing cereals research for sustainable health and well-being.

Crisis of Time! The Tyranny of the Immediate and Community in Two Literary Works by Takahashi Gen'ichirō (2021)
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Cervelli, F. (2021). Crisis of Time! The Tyranny of the Immediate and Community in Two Literary Works by Takahashi Gen'ichirō. Japanese Studies, 41(3), 285-302. https://doi.org/10.1080/10371397.2021.1970519

In his fiction, Takahashi Gen’ichirō often portrays crises of contemporary life where characters do not identify with shared ideologies or communities, instead resorting to repetitive actions to survive in their empty daily existences. This article a... Read More about Crisis of Time! The Tyranny of the Immediate and Community in Two Literary Works by Takahashi Gen'ichirō.